Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Events This Week September 3 to September 9

Events
subject to change by hosts, and
more information may come in later
this week. So check again later for events this
weekend. Check for more events at the Second Life Destination Guide.

* * * * * *Special Events

Union Jack Benefit BashFollowing the amazing success of their last Benefit Bash, the Union Jack
decided to make this an annual event. This year, the Benefit Bash is
planning a military theme in honour of troops. There will be a live
singer plus military trivia. All donations will be split equally between
Help for Heroes Official in the UK and the Wounded Warrior Project in
the USA. Everything starts Saturday, September 7th, from 12-3pm. All are
welcome, so see you there!

Enjoy the sights and sounds of autumn in London City. Come see four
weeks of spectacular music, live shows, London Proms and rock n' roll.
And if you're looking for something a little quieter, enjoy the hot
food, patio heating, dancing and the best entertainment to stay warm
this fall. For more information, be sure to visit
http://mainlandlondon.blogspot.co.uk.

The west end meets south end as London goes on holiday. Join in the fun
and special events, or just relax by the pool with the friendly
regulars. When it comes to British summer time, the only way is London,
London Beach.

Come see Ghostville, the wonderful installation by Cica Ghost with its
unique child-indie style. Ghostville is the third exhibition from this
young virtual artist, who weaves her style and personality throughout
each sample. Enjoy good vibrations, surprising quality and magnificent
animation. Don't miss it! MetaLES (233/217/25)

Love Donna Flora

Love Donna Flora is a community event to provide support to Donna
Flora's Squinternet Larnia during her struggle to live with breast and
bone cancer. With more than 100 designers participating, make a visit to
Italy and share your support for one of the grid's most beloved
designers.

Ahoy mateys and welcome aboard the Skull-n-Bones 3rd annual Pirate hunt.
All ports are open with have loot for all comers. Treasure chests will
cost ye only one gold doubloon, look for the small treasure chest
covered in the ol' jolly roger, just like the one at Port Kastle Rock.
So fair winds and godspeed, me hearties, yarrrrgh! Grand Isle (88/8/25)

After Dark

Looking for grainy film and slow saxophone? In After Dark, artists
Morgana Nagorski and Kato Salyut interpret film noir in their own unique
styles. This exhibition pays homage to hard-bitten tough guys, femme
fatales, world-weary detectives, ingenues, anti-heroes, chanteuse,
smoldering cigarettes, bottles of whiskey and the raining, midnight
city. Running from July 13th through September 8th, come see atmospheric
art in black, white and occasional red.

Bed bugs can lurk in any hotel room. The LittleTown Inn is a clean and
classy-looking establishment, but don't let this give you a false sense
of security. Play the game and learn how to protect yourself from the
worldwide bed bug epidemic on your travels.

Welcome, brave explorers and adventurers! Magellan Linden uncovered an
evil scheme by the mad Doctor Talpa to build mind-controlling machines
and take over the world. While Magellan builds a machine to counter this
scheme, you are needed to gather materials and components -- and to
destroy every one of Talpa's machines you find. Magellan has established
workshops, a laboratory (even a bar) on the Isles of Ice; travel there
to learn more, get equipped and start the hunt!
Crankshaft (211, 143, 69)

11AM Shakespeare Reading Circle - hosted by Freda Frostbite
Join
in twice a month to read for a couple hours or until we complete the
play of the month, whichever comes first. Participants can read roles
in the play in local voice. Listeners are welcome as well. August's
play is *A Comedy of Errors.*

Copies of the play will be available on this MIT website. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/allswell/index.html
1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month
11AM Book Island (86, 122, 43)

We
will gather to write and tell our own histories. The sessions will be
between and hour and two hours in length. The first hour will be spent
on writing and discussion of technique. Second hour ( or whatever
portion of second hour we need) will be devoted to sharing and
discussing the work created in the first hour.

"
Remember sitting around a campfire, listening to ghost stories? Hakeber
Haber will write new mini horror stories based on audience prompts and
read them live! Then she will clear your brain pallet with comedy from
“The Life and Times of Car Johnson” during the rest of the hour. Horror
and comedy go together like milkshakes and French-fries. The fun starts
at 4 pm SLT. Car Johnson may even make a guest appearance. :-)"

"Presenting
LaurenLive, a
stand-up live comedy routine on the
peculiarities and quirks of living
in SL and RL! Catch me at ' Lauren's
Place' on Cookie Island, Tuesday
at 5:00 PM, a lively, open comedic
conversation. No tipping. Just fun
and laughter."

Come
join us for our peer to peer support group dealing with stress,
depression, anxiety, etc. What is said in the group stays in the
group! Come share your issues and thoughts and learn a meditation
method or two.

6PM Club Zero Gravity "A party among the stars" in a featured space club"Back to School"

Tonight at Club Zero Gravity, it's "Back to School." In real life, the high schoolers and college students were groaning as vacation ended and it was back to class. And so we're pay tribute to them. Dress up in your favorite school look from jock, to geek, to athlete, to cheerleader, and of course schoolgirl and schoolboy uniforms. Just behave yourself, or the faculty will have to inflict some, disclipine.

"The ever-popular, informal & informative Writer's Chat.
Readers and Artists are especially
welcome! We never know what we'll be
talking about and even the seemingly
random chatter is interesting
:-) Hosted by JacksonArthur."

"Today
anyone who can write can digitally self-publish, but then what? How
will the emerging digital publishing world differ from today’s? How will
writers and poets get the word out when they become one small voice in
an ever-expanding global throng looking for readers? Help us find out.
Join us for a series of workshops in which we will try to understand how
this new world will differ, and how we can earn a living from our books
without a publisher's money and support. Your participation, your
insights, and your ideas will be important to our success. Join us.

Candie
Dada hosts "Improv for Writers" workshop in Book Island's Dive Bar.
Improv helps you to think on your feet. You don't stop to think, you
just say whatever pops into your head. This nourishes your creative
flow. It will be a lot of fun! Improv games will be in text and voice
so everyone can participate.

"Remember
sitting around a campfire, listening to ghost stories? Hakeber Haber
will write new mini horror stories based on audience prompts and read
them live! Then she will clear your brain pallet with comedy from “The
Life and Times of Car Johnson” during the rest of the hour. Horror and
comedy go together like milkshakes and French-fries. The fun starts at 4
pm SLT. Car Johnson may even make a guest appearance. :-)"

“A
weekly news review
and counterpoint to the
network opinion shows. Each week,
two well regarded bloggers
discuss the events of the
week, with an emphasis on U.S. politics
and policy. “Jay Ackroyd hosts.

6PM Club Zero Gravity "A party among the stars" in a featured space club"Uncommon Avatars"

Tonight at Club Zero Gravity, the theme is "Uncommon Avatars." Do you feel like you're the only one of your type in a sea of humans, foxes, kitties, and other avs? Or perhaps you like to change once in a while to something different. Well then, this is the night for you. Wear a type of avatar you never or almost never see anyone else wear. And if it's your main look, so much the better. Wear it proud, and fly on over.

"The
Pocket is a venue for music, fun and good times. Our motto is 'few
rules just fun,' so please relax and have a good time. ... Our regular
show is Friday Night at The Pocket from 8 PM 'til late on Fridays
featuring an ever changing program of the best live music in Second
Life. "

At traditional Dashes, you arrive, are
given a word, words or phrase to work with; you write, then after about
15 minutes, you stop, allowing everyone the opportunity to read their
story.Our format is Read (last week's Flash writing, or another piece you're working on)Critique (The "Fix" part of the "Fix-N-Flash")Flash writeAfterglow (if time allows)

11AM Racer X's Giant Snail RacesA
"crazy fun event" that can be called
one of those things only in Second Life. Other weeks,
racers don racing snail avatars, and run through
an obstacle course. Treet films these races: http://treet.tv/shows/snailraces.

"You
can talk about the books,
short stories, or poetry you've read
recently (or long ago) -- even the books
you didn't like :-) This is a casual,
welcoming group and we'd love to hear what
YOU are, or were, reading! Hosted by Brokali"

"The Naked Scientists are a media-savvy group of physicians and
researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and
the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote
it to the general public. Their award winning BBC weekly radio
program, The Naked Scientists, reaches a potential audience of 6
million listeners across the east of England, and also has an
international following on the web." http://www.thenakedscientists.com/

"Join Sandor Zabelin for our Open Mic In The Library. Bring your own
writings (fiction, non-fiction, poetry...) or the writings of one of
your favorite authors. You can read on Voice Chat *or* one of our
regulars can read for you. And, we sure won't kick you out if all you
want to do is listen :-) "1 PM Book Island (99, 106, 35)

5:30PM The East Coast Conservative Podcast"The
East Coast
Conservative Podcast is a weekly news
& commentary podcast hosted
by Hatton Humphrey (aka Hatton
Hunghi in SL) and Ken Johnston
(who barely has time for a real
life). Our take on the world is
generally conservative with a lot of
humor and enough bad jokes to
make a clown cry. Okay, the bad
jokes are normally from Hatton, but
whaddya do?"

An
hour of battling it out in a racetrack using vehicles provided for you.
Contestants smash into one another until one is left. Expect mayhem and
laughs. First and second places get Linden prize awards.6 to 7PM , Random (6, 92, 301)

6PM Global Peace Group

"A
self-organizing association of individuals learning how to formulate
plans to aid a Culture of Peace and, when appropriate, put those plans
into action. This is a non-adversarial approach to group planning and
operates with an awareness of the principle of Unity In Diversity."

SLundays
At Gearz With Fuzz And Genie, at Club Gearz located in Steelhead
Boomtown. Fuzz provides two hours of tunes to help end your weekend
right. Sometimes there may be a theme, sometimes it just may be random
madness.

The weekly meeting of the Second Life chapter of the National Space Society, "an independent, educational, grassroots, non-profit
organization dedicated to the creation of a spacefaring civilization." Click Here for more information: http://www.nss.org/

Club
Gearz is the place to start your week off with Whoop Ass Mondays with
the Lady Whoop Ass, herself, Diamanda Gustafson. Diamanda provides an
eclectic mix of music, helping make your Mondays that much more special.